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Zachary Lamb is an assistant professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the role of urban planning and design in shaping uneven vulnerability and resilience in the face of climate change. In 2018, Professor Lamb completed his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Urban Studies and Planning, with a dissertation that examined the role of design in shaping urban flood infrastructure and the changing spatial politics of urban flooding, featuring case studies from New Orleans, Louisiana and Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is currently working on a book project titled 'Making and Unmaking Dry City,' which explores the historical evolution and contemporary problems of flood mitigation in urban settings. After completing his PhD, Professor Lamb was awarded a Princeton Mellon Fellowship in Urbanism and Environment. He is also a co-founder of Crookedworks, a design-build firm that utilizes collaborative design to address complex urban challenges, including food security and climate-change hazards. He holds a Master of Architecture and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Environmental Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Williams College, respectively.
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